Final Call for Submissions - International Conference on Biomedical
Ontologies (ICBO 2012)
co-located with the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontologies in
Information Systems (FOIS 2012)
the 31 January 2012 conference paper submission deadline approaches. You can
use contact.icbo2012@gmail.com for information or contact the PC chairs (see
end of email).
22-25 July 2012; Graz, Austria.
Conference Web site: http://purl.org/icbofois2012/
*** Relevant dates ***
25 January 2012: Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorial
proposals
31 January 2012: Conference paper submission deadline
28 February 2012: Notification of conference paper acceptance
15 April 2012: Poster, early career symposium, software demonstrations and
workshop papers submission deadline
15 May 2012: Notification of poster, early career symposium, software
demonstrations and workshop paper acceptance
30 June 2012: Deadline for all camera-ready copies for the proceedings
*** Topics ***
Ontologies are increasingly used in the semantic description of biological
and medical data from creation to publication and consumption by
semantically enabled applications. To be effective, such ontologies must be
of high quality and work well together. Therefore, issues like techniques
for ontology use, good ontology design, ontology maintenance, and ontology
coordination need to be addressed. The International Conference on
Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) series is designed to meet this need. ICBO 2012,
the third event in the highly successful series, will bring together
representatives of all major communities involved in ontology use and
development in biomedical research, health care, and related areas.
*** Call for Papers ***
ICBO 2012 is soliciting submissions of novel (not previously published nor
concurrently submitted) research papers in the areas of the application of
ontologies to biomedical problems, ontology design and ontology
interoperability, at any stage in the process of data creation to its use in
applications. Submissions will be welcome from a broad range of approaches
to ontology building and use. In particular, we would like to invite
contributions on these aspects of biomedical ontologies, as well as on the
use of such ontologies in knowledge management, knowledge discovery and
next-generation publishing. We will accept full-length papers (5 pages),
poster submissions (1 page abstracts), software demonstrations (2 page
abstracts or 5 page full application papers), and early career researcher
symposium submissions (2 page abstracts). Publication of the proceedings of
the conference will be in the KR-MED series of CEUR-WS and papers will be
made electronically available to all conference participants. Furthermore, a
selection of the best papers will be invited as extended versions for
re-review and publication as full,
regular contributions to the Journal of Biomedical Semantics.
We are pleased to announce that the National Center for Biomedical
Ontologies (NCBO) has sponsored a best paper prize for ICBO.
Submission of papers is via EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo-2012), according to the
templates provided on the conference web site.
*** Contact ***
For more information or to offer sponsorship, please send us a note at
contact.icbo2012@gmail.com
*** Organizing Committee ***
General Chairs: Ronald Cornet (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Robert
Stevens (Manchester, UK)
Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Melanie Courtot (Vancouver, Canada)
Early Career Consortium Chair: Ludger Jansen (Rostock, Germany)
Software Demonstration Chair: Trish Whetzel (Stanford, USA)
Proceedings Chair: Janna Hastings (Geneva, Switzerland)
Local Chair: Stefan Schulz (Graz, Austria)
Robert Stevens
Reader in bioHealth Informatics
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
United Kingdom
M13 9PL
robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk
Blog: http://robertdavidstevens.wordpress.com
Home: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~stevensr
+44 161 275 6251
KBO